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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER F. BUCHANAN, OF MONTROSE, NEW YORK.

MACHINE FORDRNAMENTING AND CUTTING OIL-CLOTH, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,782, dated February6, 1883. Application filed October 24, 1882. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER FORDYOE BUCHANAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re-

siding at Montrose, in the county of Westchester and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Urnamentingand Cutting Oil-Cloth, &c., of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention consists in a machinein which a Web of oil-cloth, paper,or other like material is cut in a zigzag, undulating, or otheranalogous plane, and ornamented or decorated on opposite sides of theout in a plane parallel therewith, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a vertical cross-section. Fig. 2 is aside view ofthe cutting-roller. Fig. 3 shows a portion of the cut and ornamentedweb.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. The letter A designatesthe machine-frame, forming the bearings for a cutting-roller, B, anddecorating-roller 0, oneprovided with a circumferential knife, E,extending in a zigzag, undulating, or other similar plane, and the otherprovided with circumferential printing or embossing devices in two sets,which extend in a plane parallel to each other and to said knife, onopposite sides of the knife. The rollers B U are geared, as by means ofcogwheels F, in such a manner that the printing or embossing devices(iolllpllslllg the acting surdrying-roller, K. By the action of therollerknife E the web is out or severed in a plane corresponding to thatof the knife, while by the action of the decorating-roller U it isprinted or embossed on opposite sides of and parallel with the cut, asindicated in Fig. 3, and hence the web is divided into two parts orlengths, each of which has a scalloped edge, in

addition toa lineof ornamentation corresponding to such edge, withoutwaste of material. For the purpose of imparting to said divided lengthsof the web a good finish the cuttingroller is provided withtrimming-knives E, which act on the Web at or near its oppositelongitudinal edges in its passage over'the cutting-roller.

If desired, the roller-knife E may be arranged to score the web, withoutcnttinglit, a sufficient distance in each revolution oftthe roller toleave the parts of the web united to each other, while thecutting-roller and decorating-roller, moreover, may be transposed, so

that the web is first printed or embossed and p then cut.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, substantially as hereinbe-

